Neven Mrgan

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Designer at Panic • works on https://play.date • maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine; writer of comedy book Have You Tried Sketch. Mr. Mrgan's wardrobe is his own.
Websitehttp://mrgan.com
Latest Gamehttps://play.date/games/the-barkless-doctrine
Pronounshe/him
LocationPortland, OR
Show threadNeven MrganJul 17, 2025
@davew I understand the larger political point you're making, but the AI slop is distracting in the worst way 😅
Neven MrganJun 14, 2025
Dan WinemanJun 13, 2025
I asked Adobe Acrobat’s AI Assistant for help editing a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet. It didn’t know anything about Acrobat but it was happy to talk about D&D. Relatable!
Show threadNeven MrganJun 3, 2025
crush your competition with the power of AI 💪
Neven MrganJun 3, 2025
If I had writer’s block about creating an outline from sales_report.docx I’d throw a piano onto my own head
Show threadNeven MrganApr 20, 2025
@kyle I don’t understand what this means. I believe I’m perfectly positioned to judge the output I got as erroneous.
Show threadNeven MrganApr 20, 2025
@tewha I’m not THAT interested in pursuing it, I guess. The way I spotted the bug was by noticing unusual output values; by then, I could see the problem myself.
Neven MrganApr 20, 2025
@tomwinzig Copilot
Show threadNeven MrganApr 20, 2025
@mez Yeah, for a dummy like me, even after I fixed the b clash, I don’t have a good understanding of what the code does and how. I could probably ask! But part of being a novice is not knowing what to ask, or when.
Show threadNeven MrganApr 20, 2025
(I don't normally use AI tools, and I made myself try it here just because I keep wondering if I'm out of touch and missing out on productivity gains somehow. This one mistake doesn't prove much, but it was a rare time when I could even *think* of having AI help me; few of my problems are THIS simple and self-contained. And yet……)
Neven MrganApr 20, 2025
I needed to write some simple code: an HSB-to-RGB converter. I'm pretty stupid so I require help with this, and I figured I'd try AI—Copilot, in this case. The resulting code…… didn't work. See if you can spot the issue. (Like I said, I'm dumb, so it took me a few minutes.)